The reality of Casimir friction
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: The reality of Casimir friction
zbMATH Open document ID: 1373.81345
author: Kimball A. Milton
author: Iver Brevik
author: Johan S. Høye
published in: Symmetry
publication date: 2017-10-23T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.00626
review text: Summary: For more than 35 years theorists have studied quantum or Casimir friction, which occurs when two smooth bodies move transversely to each other, experiencing a frictional dissipative force due to quantum electromagnetic fluctuations, which break time-reversal symmetry. These forces are typically very small, unless the bodies are nearly touching, and consequently such effects have never been observed, although lateral Casimir forces have been seen for corrugated surfaces. Partly because of the lack of contact with observations, theoretical predictions for the frictional force between parallel plates, or between a polarizable atom and a metallic plate, have varied widely. Here, we review the history of these calculations, show that theoretical consensus is emerging, and offer some hope that it might be possible to experimentally confirm this phenomenon of dissipative quantum electrodynamics.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81T55
zbMATH DE Number: 6796674
zbMATH Keywords: Casimir friction
zbMATH Keywords: dissipation
zbMATH Keywords: quantum fluctuations
zbMATH Keywords: fluctuation-dissipation theorem
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W1842387369
DOI: 10.3390/SYM8050029
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